Abe Lemons quotes
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“Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.”
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“The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.”
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“Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.”
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“I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.”
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“I don't have any tricky plays. I'd rather have tricky players.”
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“They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn't make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.”
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“You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.”
-- Abe LemonsSource : "Lemons won 599 games during 34-year career". www.espn.com. September 6, 2002.
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“I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?”
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“If I make a set of rules, then a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He comes back and says, 'It wasn't in the rules.'”
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“Coaches who shoot par in the summer are the guys I want on my schedule in the winter.”
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“Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.”
-- Abe Lemons
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